by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 22, 2023 | 2023, Articles, Evangelism, Jesus' Birth, Jesus' Second Coming, Soo-Inn Tan
Last Sunday I preached on Luke 2:8–20 and the shepherds’ encounter with the angel who brought the news of the coming of the promised Messiah. As I reflected further on the passage I thought of how ordinary, how quiet, the evening must have been before the appearance...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Dec 20, 2019 | 2019, Articles, God, Jesus, Jesus' Second Coming, Redemption
And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid. I bring you...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Feb 8, 2019 | 2019, Articles, Death & Grief, Jesus' Second Coming, Life Issues
During the Lunar New Year period (it officially lasts 15 days) you are not supposed to talk about or think about negative things. It might jinx you for the rest of the year. But this year I keep thinking about death. On the 29th of Jan I received news that a friend...
by Soo-Inn Tan | May 29, 2011 | 2011, Articles, Christian Living, Jesus, Jesus' Second Coming, Obedience & Faithfulness
What were you doing last Saturday (May 21st, 2011)? I spoke at a men’s meeting in the morning, and at a church group in the evening. In between I rushed to finish a paper I was writing for my own church community. A full day. It was only much later that I discovered...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Nov 8, 2010 | 2010, Afterlife, Articles, Jesus, Jesus' Second Coming, Life Issues
I suspect this piece will make some people angry but here it is. Recently when we were having dinner with some friends, I was asked as to where I stood concerning the interpretation of the thousand years of Revelation 20:4- 6: I saw thrones on which were seated those...
by Soo-Inn Tan | Jan 2, 2009 | 2009, Articles, God, God’s Sovereignty, Jesus, Jesus' Second Coming
Don’t know about you but the new year looks strangely like the old one. Which is why I am holding out for another one. This one: Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the old heaven and the old earth had disappeared. And the sea was also gone. And I saw...
